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As each piece is placed correctly in the puzzle board, your child will be delighted to hear the names of the states and capitals! Forty wooden pieces help develop map and memory skills. Pictures on pieces show images associated with each state. State borders shown under pieces.

My 4 & 6 year old really enjoy this puzzle. My 4 year old requests to work puzzle over and over again. They have both picked up memorizing the states quickly and easily. The board is sensitive and will go off if you put wrong state on it, which is not a huge deal if you are working puzzle with them. The only thing I don't like is they combined several states(I.e KY/TN, SC/GA and all the tiny states together on one piece.) That is confusing to little ones as they don't realize they are different states as its all on 1 piece. That was disappointing

I got this puzzle to use with my kindergarten students and they absolutely love it. It's very interactive and meets the needs of visual, kinesthetic, and aural learners. Within a week, they were able to tell me some of the names of states and capitals. Thanks Melissa and Doug, for a truly awesome product for teachers and students!

We have LOVED every Melissa & Doug product we have ever bought, and that is a lot! This one is was such a bust. The sound is activated by covering the light sensor. Our puzzle is SO sensitive that when you reach across the puzzle to place your piece the shadow of your arm activates a random state. It was so bad we had to take the batteries out. We still use it, but I could have paid a lot less for puzzle without the sound feature.

GREAT puzzle. Little pieces not for younger ones. But my 3 year old LOVES doing this puzzle. I love that she can learn while she thinks she is just "playing" The board has all the states lined out so you can do it in any order.

My six year old learned all the capitals and states without any effort. He just really enjoyed working on the puzzle. As he added the pieces, he heard the state and capital name and before long, he knew all of them to my surprise. I wish there were other puzzles like this for older children (countries & capitals, Geography, science, etc.)

We purchased this puzzle for my daughter's 3rd birthday. This has become her favorite puzzle and toy. We played with her and helped her identify the states and where they go. She's owned the puzzle for about 3 months now and can put it together by herself and can verbally identify about 90% of the states. She has trouble with the New England states where CT, NH, VT, MD, DE, NJ, RI are comblined on one piece.